It used to be, back in the days of Apple Classic, that the clipboard contained several copies of the stuff that was placed there. Each copy was identified by one of those four character type codes that are now deprecated in OS neXt.
pbpaste, as a tool, does not allow tor an argument for selecting which information type is to be selected. Does it take the first type encountered? Does it default to TEXT, meaning the UTF-8 copy will be ignored? Does it read the UTF-8 version as though it were simple text? Are the type codes no longer supported in OS neXt? And, for that matter, what is the difference between the pasteboard and the clipboard anyway? Some NeXT documentation refers to the pasteboard as equivalent to the current selection, copied or not. -- --> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't <--
